History Recap / SouthParkThePandemicSpecial

** Yates and the South Park police force as a whole are a middle finger at the escalating cases of PoliceBrutality that led to protests over systemic racism during the pandemic in real life. They fail to understand why there’s an enormous lack of trust in them which led to their defunding and ''still'' think excessive force is the only way to handle situations. By the time they got their resources back, they waste no time murdering anyone they deem to be breaking the law, with many of them murdering simply ''for fun.''

* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Kenny is riddled with bullets by the overzealous police during the riot over the lockdowns.

* LaserGuidedKarma: Cartman throws a tantrum when forced to go back to school. The police use the resulting fight (and [[MisplacedRetribution Token's subsequent 'COVID-related' hospitalization]]) as an excuse to quarantine all the children inside the school building.

* QuarantineWithExtremePrejudice: Exploited. The police take advantage of the kids breaking quarantine to get refunded and go on a killing spree, despite knowing the kids aren't actually infected with Covid.

* GirlsWithMoustaches: Not only do all of Randy's male customers who smoke his "cure" for COVID-19 end up growing the same mustache Randy has, his female customers end up having his mustache too, [[spoiler:even ''Sharon'' [[NotSoAboveItAll of all people]].]]

** The police tell the public that Token was taken to the hospital because of COVID. When Stan protests that it was actually because the police shot him, Yates responds that the officers wouldn't have been at the school if the outbreak hadn't sent all the teachers home, making Token's injuries "COVID-related."

** Garrison burning the pangolin.

** Garrison is okay with letting millions of people die from COVID just so he can get rid of the Mexicans. Later on, he burns the pangolin that would have cured COVID and shows no remorse over it.

* TakeThat: Hoo boy!

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped, and it shows how hard an anvil hits, and how essential its dropping was, when it got Cartman to show some empathy for others. Heck, it's gotten to the point where Stan and Kyle were speechless at Cartman's surprising lack of sociopathy.

* NeverMyFault: When Stan points out that Token was taken to the hospital because Officer Yates shot him, Yates replies the police were only at the school because the teachers had left, so COVID is ultimately to blame.

** Yates [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain shooting Token]] and then callously dismissing it when Stan calls him out on it.

* KickTheDog: Randy calling the half-dead Jimbo a fat alcoholic before smacking him and saying that he won't be going to jail because of him or anyone else he's spread COVID to.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Cartman going nuts in the classroom ends up triggering the police to shoot Token, leading to an even tighter lockdown.

* HateSink: Sergeant Yates and the rest of the South Park Police Department are at their most detestable here. While filling in as teachers for South Park Elementary School, they openly bemoan not being able to cause any "unnecessary deaths", abuse the children under their care and force them into confinement, shoot Token for no reason when Kyle and Cartman start fighting, and upon being refunded, use their newly-gained firepower to terrorize and kill the escaped children, [[ForTheEvulz simply for their own amusement.]]

* HateSink: Sergeant Yates and the rest of the South Park Police Department are at their most detestable here. While filling in as teachers for South Park Elementary School, they openly bemoan not being able to cause any "unnecessary deaths", abuse the children under their care and force them into confinement, shoot Token for no reason when Kyle and Cartman start fight, and upon being refunded, use their newly-gained firepower to terrorize and kill the escaped children, [[ForTheEvulz simply for their own amusement.]]

* HistoricalRapSheet: According to this episode, the COVID-19 Pandemic was caused by a coked out Randy Marsh and Mickey Mouse having sex with a pangolin in China.

* HistoricalRapSheet: According to this episode, the COVID-19 pandemic was caused by a coked out Randy Marsh and Mickey Mouse having sex with a pangolin in China.

* HistoricalRapSheet: According to this episode, the coronavirus was caused by a coked out Randy Marsh and Mickey Mouse having sex with a pangolin in China.

** Cartman is this towards people who don't care how the lockdown is affecting others, because they themselves are enjoying it's benefits.

* WhateverHappenedToTheMouse:

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* RealityEnsues: The boys break into Build-A-Bear only to find they can't work the equipment by themselves without any employees around.

*** The [=BLM=] movement isn’t spared, either, with them taking things too far, especially with calling for the defunding of police departments, showing the problems that creates if the police aren’t funded.

** Randy says to [[Creator/{{Disney}} Mickey Mouse that he made a "deal with the devil" when he wanted to bring "that ''[[Film/Mulan2020 Mulan]]'' shit" to the Chinese market.

* AbandonedPlayground: The opening scene shows deserted outside places of the town including a playground.

* KickTheDog:
** Randy calling the half-dead Jimbo a fat alcoholic before smacking him and saying that he won't be going to jail because of him or anyone else he's spread COVID to.
** Garrison doesn't just kill the pangolin and the scientist, he burns them alive while leaving South Park engulfed in flames. Even before that Garrison reveals his intentions to let the COVID-19 pandemic kill off all the Mexicans to Stan before telling Stan to "eat shit off [his] balls and die".

* CureForCancer: For whatever reason, Randy's sperm (combined with his weed) has the alleged effect of curing COVID entirely and giving it a vaccine effect because he is [[TheImmune immune]] to COVID. The horrific side effect is takers grow mustaches that look like his, which is bad news for him trying to hide his indirect involvement in the pandemic and the [[JustForPun seemen]]gly endless amount of work he has to do [[ADateWithRosiePalms to himself]] to keep everyone safe.

* DramaticIrony: Stan rouses the kids to break out of school just so he can take a deranged Butters to Build-A-Bear. However, by the time he's already done doing that, Butters has already calmed down while Stan fails miserably to build a bear without the help of a clerk, falling into desperation himself. Even Butters tells him his need to go to the shop is gone.